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20 Product: Scott Belsky on How to Hire Your Product Leader and Team, 3 Questions All Great Product Leaders Ask, How To Structure and Run Effective Product Reviews & Is Product More Art or Science?
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings Scott's also an early advisor and incredible investor in companies like Pinterest, Uber, Sweetgreen, Carter, Flexport, Airtable.
20VC: Sweetgreen Founder Jonathan Neman on Leadership Lessons from Managing Through COVID, The Importance of Failing Fast and Iterating & How the Best Leaders Bring Together Brand, Capital Allocation and Strategy
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings so I'm so thrilled to welcome John Neiman, co-founder and CEO at Sweetgreen, the mission-driven restaurant brand that serves healthy food at scale. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:11 Harry Stebbings But that's enough from me, so now I'm so excited to hand over to John Neiman, co-founder and CEO at Sweetgreen.
- ▶ 3:39 Harry Stebbings You actually keep me nutritious and filled when I'm in the States, so I think I owe you the thanks, but I want to start with a little bit on you, because I heard from a wonderful friend Sean that when you started Sweetgreen, it was in your… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:33 John Neman For me, I never thought starting the restaurant was risky. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:37 John Neman Later on in our trajectory, there was a moment where the company was incredibly challenged. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:01 John Neman Yeah, so very interestingly, we ran the company as co-founders and CEOs for the first eight years. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:09 John Neman So at Sweetgreen, we have a leadership principle, which is balance art and science. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:32 John Neman So what's unique about Sweetgreen is our customers are very, very frequent. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:25 John Neman Then we introduced something called Sweetgreen Outpost, which is a virtual Sweetgreen hotspot anywhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:39 John Neman You know, I think what I've learned, especially as the company has gotten bigger, you know, today we're almost 6000 team members across the country, is the best companies, the most resilient and sustainable companies actually operate in a… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:42 Harry Stebbings Do you worry now as one of the big businesses that 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:57 John Neman Yeah, so COVID for restaurants and for Sweetgreen was very, very challenging. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:41 Harry Stebbings What is the hardest element of your role with Sweet Green Stage On? 3 times in the scene